Quotes About Risk

You wanted to live." "No," he shot back. "I was afraid of dying.

Don't stop now," Rehv said. "You've already jumped off the building. The landing isn't getting any softer." Montrag frowned. "I fail to view this with your kind of levity." "Who's laughing." -Rehv & Montrag

Los ojos de Zsadist se entornaron hasta formar una delgada línea, y una ráfaga de aire helado cruzó la habitación, como si hubiera soplado hacía ella. "Ten cuidado, hembra. La valentía puede ser peligrosa.

Ink drawing was a lot like life: One mistake and the whole thing was ruined.

Be bolder. Think bigger. Come on, there has to be somewhere exciting. The Taj Mahal, Paris—" "We can't go to Paris." "Says who?" "Ahh . . ." "Never met Ahhh, don't know him, don't care how big he is—if he's standing in our way? I'ma murder the son of a bitch." "You are so adorable.

You might as well stand over here with me by the window. If shit gets critical, we can Hollywood-stuntman it out of the line of fire.

You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.

If you don't stay with your winners, you are not going to be able to pay for the losers.

Traders focus almost entirely on where to enter a trade. In reality, the entry size is often more important than the entry price

Buffett being penalized for underperforming versus managers riding the long side of the dot-com bubble is a perfect illustration of a common investor mistake—failing to realize that often the managers with the highest returns achieve those results because they're taking the most risk, not because they have the greatest skill.

it's not about being right; it's about making money.

One of my rules was to get out when the volatility and the momentum became absolutely insane.

You don't want to have a position before a move has started. You want to wait until the move is already under way before you get into the market.

My goal on Wall Street was never to get rich but to stay in business. There's a big difference. If you're out of the business, you can never get rich. That's why you have to be especially cautious when you're trading a larger position size.

I am always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money.

When asked what he thought the average trader did wrong, Tom Baldwin, who in the days before electronic trading was the largest individual trader in the Treasury bond pit, replied, "They trade too much. They don't pick their spots selectively enough.

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.

It's impossible to fall of mountains you fool!

If you keep this up you'll both go crazy, but let me know what happens as you go along.

I'd rather walk than ride the airplane, I can fall on the ground flat on my face and die that way.

But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

Although my aunt warned me that he would get me in trouble, I could hear a new call and see a new horizon...